President Donald Trump again Monday said he would have won the popular vote against Democrat Hillary Clinton in November if not for voter fraud, Politico reported.

The exchange happened during a White House meeting with bipartisan leaders, according to the website. Politico said multiple sources who attended the meeting reported the exchange and Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn, a Texas Republican, confirmed the comment, but said, "I didn't pay a lot of attention to it. I was ready to move on to some policy issues. I didn't anticipate that discussion."

Trump handily won the Electoral College vote Nov. 8, but Clinton captured the popular vote by almost three million. Though the popular vote does not determine the president in U.S. elections, Trump has insisted he would have won that, too, if millions had not voted illegally.

He first tweeted his voter fraud claim Nov. 27.

In addition to winning the Electoral College in a landslide, I won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally